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Berlin’s housing crisis is heating up as Social Democrats roll out a new online rent register to clamp down on skyrocketing prices—despite legal hurdles and doubts about its real-world impact. The plan builds on an existing rental atlas that already fails to stop most listings from exceeding limits, while reigniting old debates over forced sales of large apartment portfolios. With the chancellor now hinting at a federal ban on such sales—seen by critics as favoring wealthy landlords—the issue has become a flashpoint ahead of elections, where public anger over rents could shake up Berlin’s political landscape.

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